Wednesday, April 11, 2018

How to unzip or extract zip file using PHP

This post explains how to unzip or extract a folder using PHP with the help of ZipArchive class. ZipArchive is a built in class of PHP and was introduced in PHP version 5.2 . This class will help you to unzip, zip or read zip file.

Recently we have posted a tutorial for creating a zip file using php and i think you should read about it to build more understanding on zip file creation process. In case of any questions, please do comment in comment box below.

Unzip a zip file using ZipArchive Class

Lets see the complete example to unzip a file using ZipArchive Class.

Step-1 :
creates an object of the ZipArchive class.

$zip =newZipArchive();

Step-2 :
opening the zip file using open() function.

$zip->open($source)

Step-3 :
Set the destination for the zip file extraction.

$destination ='extracted/';
$zip->extractTo($destination);

Step-4:
closing the zip file.

$zip->close();

Complete Source Code :
This script will help you extract files from the existing zip file. Here we are extracting the files from "skptricks-zip.zip" zip file.

unzip-file-using-php.php

<?php
//Check whether zip extension is enabled or notif(extension_loaded('zip')){
$zip =newZipArchive();//Path of the source zip file to be extracted
$source ="skptricks-zip.zip";if($zip->open($source)== TRUE){//Destination of extracted files and folders to be stored
$destination ='extracted/';
$zip->extractTo($destination);
$zip->close();}else{
echo "Failed to open the zip file!";}}?>

This is all about unzip or extract zip file using PHP. Thank you for reading this article, and if you have any problem, have a another better useful solution about this article, please write message in the comment section.